Wind, snow and ice can severely damage tree limbs, exposing sensitive wood tissue to the elements. How to repair those breaks and damage before disease sets in.
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Landscaping, Tree Care Tips
Seed catalogs are full of abbreviations and symbols. Dr Leonard Perry explains what it all means.
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Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Michael Pollan’s “The Botany Of Desire” explores the impact of human desires on artificial selection: do we cultivate plants, or do they cultivate us?
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Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Books & Gardening Product Reviews, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Organic gardening is more than trading chemical inputs for non-chemical. Here are 5 tips to get you on your way to a healthier garden.
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Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners, Vegetable & Fruit GardeningMaking a plan for your organic garden is essential to success. Here are a few things to consider before you put your boots on.
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Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening, Weed, Disease And Pest Management
Teaming With Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis explores the co-evolution of plants and their surrounding soil microbes, fungi, insects and animals.
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Gardening Books & Gardening Product Reviews
Snow cover provides a remarkable insulating effect that helps overwinter the plants in your garden.
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Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
“In Tune With The Moon” is a detailed guide which explains the effect the Moon and tides have on everything that grows in your garden
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Gardening Books & Gardening Product Reviews
A compost bin made from 6 shipping pallets can hold enough compost to serve a large organic garden.This short video shows you how to build it.
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Composting, Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Crabgrass is a problem in any lawn and when the lawn gets burned out it’s an even bigger problem. How to make crabgrass go away and stay away.
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Landscaping, Organic Lawn Care, Weed, Disease And Pest ManagementA Cascade River Birch is an absolutely beautiful tree. This video shows you how to plant this tree, or nearly any tree.
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Landscaping, Tree Care Tips
Late Blight was a killer in 2009 for tomatoes in Pennsylvania. How to avoid blight this year.
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Tomatoes, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening, Weed, Disease And Pest Management